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At The 78th Emmys (9/14/26), Matthew Rhys Made History As The 1st To Win 2 Lead Awards In 1yr (“The Beast In Me” & “Widow’s Bay (WB)”). WB Set A Comedy Record With 14 Wins. Jean Smart Tied For Most Acting Emmys (8), Winning For Every Hacks Season. Hiro Murai: The 1st Asian Comedy Director Winner; Sally Field: Oldest Limited-Series Actress Winner.

King Oyo Nyimba of Tooro Kingdom, Uganda, Once The World’s Youngest Monarch Crowned At Age 3 In 1995, Died At 34 In The U.S In Late Aug 2026 From Cancer. He Was Buried Sat Sept 12 At Karambi Royal Tombs On His Coronation Anniversary. His Cousin, Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma, 56, Was Named Successor Amid Family Dispute Over A Claimed Son.

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U.K Scientists Grew The First Lab-Made Oesophagus (OS) That Replaced A 2.5cm Section In 8 Mini-Pigs. A Donor Pig‘s OS Was Decellularized, Seeded With The Recipient Pig’s Own Cells, Matured In A Bioreactor & Implanted. 5/8 Reached The 6-Mth Endpoint With Normal Swallowing, W/O Immunosuppression. Promising For Babies With Oesophageal Atresia.

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Scientists Found Australia’s Oldest Crocodile Eggshells (~55Myr-old) In Queensland, From Extinct ~5m-Long Mekosuchine Crocodiles (MC). MC Dominated Waters In Forested Australia When It Was Near Antarctica; Some MCs Were Tree-Climbing “Drop Crocs” That Hunted Like Leopards. They Died Out ~3kyrs Ago Due To, E.G., Drying Habitats & Prey-Loss.

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Zootopia 2 Made History As Hollywood’s Highest-Grossing Animated Film, Earning $1.707B And Surpassing Inside Out 2. It’s The 9th Highest-Grossing Film Of All Time, & Is Disney Animation’s Biggest Hit On A $150M Budget. Released Nov 2025, Judy & Nick Tackle Gary De’Snake. It’s Huge In China, But Trails Global Animated Champ Ne Zha 2 (~$2.2B).

China’s 2025 Trade Surplus (Exported/Sold More Abroad Than Imported/Bought) Reached A Record $1.19Tn (£890B), The First Time Any Country Topped $1Tn. It Beat China’s 2024 Record Of $993B (Up ~20%). No Other Nation Has Come Close; Past Highs Were ~$600–665B For China And ~$250B For Germany, Making This Extraordinary Amid Global Challenges.

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U.S Scientists Created The Fastest Hepatitis C (HCV) Test By Adapting The DASH Rapid PCR System From COVID-19. Using Untreated Blood, It Gives Results In 15 Mins, Up To 75% Faster Than Prior Tests, & Showed 100% Agreement With Lab PCR, Enabling Same-Day Diagnosis & Treatment To Meet WHO’s 2030 Elimination Goal For The ~50M People Affected.

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China’s DeepSeek Math-V2 Is The First Open-Weight A.I To Achieve IMO Gold-Level Math Scores, Matching Rivals Google DeepMind And OpenAI. Unlike Them, It’s Free On Hugging Face/GitHub And Can “Self-Verify” Solutions. Despite Acclaim, It Faces Bans In Multiple U.S. States/Agencies & GDPR Restrictions In Italy Over Security & Privacy Concerns.

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Anthony Albanese (62) Wed Jodie Haydon (47) In Canberra, Becoming The First Sitting Australian PM To Engage (2/14/24) & Marry (11/29/25) In The Nation’s 124-Year Federal History. The Ceremony At The Lodge Included His Son Nathan & Dog Toto (Ring Bearer), Attended By ~60 Guests. They Walked The Aisle To Stevie Wonder‘s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered.”

Gustav Klimt’s Portrait Of Elisabeth Lederer (1914–16) Sold In N.Y On 11/18/25 For $236.4M, Becoming The 2nd-Costliest Artwork Only To Da Vinci’s $450.3M Salvator Mundi. It Also Set A Modern Art Sale Record, Topping Warhol’s $195M Marilyn; Became Sotheby’s Costliest Sale; Was Nazi-Looted, Rescued In 1948, & Later Owned By Estée Lauder Heir.

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